--- title: _Parallels_.--Mr. Lang, in the essay “A Far-travelled Tale” in which… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: _Parallels_.--Mr. Lang, in the essay “A Far-travelled Tale” in which he gives the story, mentions several variants of it, including the classical myth of Jason and Medea. Who acts: Parallels, tale, several variants, story. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [VII. Nix Nought Nothing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/) / 5 # English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 5 \_Parallels\_.--Mr. Lang, in the essay “A Far-travelled Tale” in which he gives the story, mentions several variants of it, including the classical myth of Jason and Medea. **Who acts:** Parallels, tale, several variants, story · **What happens:** travel, give, mention, vary · **To what, where:** Tale, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, tale, several variants, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:57:5 # text = _Parallels_.--Mr. Lang, in the essay “A Far-travelled Tale” in which he gives the story, mentions several variants of it, including the classical myth of Jason and Medea. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Parallels parallel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 .-- .-- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 Lang Lang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 essay essay NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 Far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Tale Tale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 mentions mention VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 variants variant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 including including ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 classical classical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Medea Medea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** *in a quote* | past | Parallels Lang Mr. and the essay | Tale | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | tale | the story | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | several variants of story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **vary** | | story | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/6/) - ↑ back to [VII. 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